# What Cartoon Marathon Would You Sit Through In A Movie Theatre? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115 "2010-12-14T14:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/1 "2010-12-14T14:44:55Z")
I was watching _Maude_ and Walter is arrested for flashing. Of course he didn’t do it and his alibi is he spent all day in a movie theatre watching a Donald Duck marathon. (He called it a film retrospective) So the question is what cartoon marathon would you sit through at a movie theatre? Bugs Bunny? Popeye? Woody Woodpecker, Mickey Mouse? It can be any cartoon even one on TV like the Flintstones or the Jetsons, but you’d have to go to a movie theatre to see it and you’d have to sit through, let’s say, an eight hour marathon. Is there a cartoon like that you could sit through an eight hour marathon, if so which one? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/2 "2010-12-14T14:54:27Z")
Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner. Why is this even a question? ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/3 "2010-12-14T14:55:47Z")
Simpsons - 8 hours would be a breeze. Family Guy and Ren & Stimpy would be maybes - I’m sure I could go for multiple hours, but maybe not a full 8. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/4 "2010-12-14T14:58:04Z")
I think I watched a sizable chunk of the total run of Futurama in one sitting before, so I’m pretty sure I could do it in a movie theater as well. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/5 "2010-12-14T15:13:03Z")
Gargoyles Transformers Animated The Venture Bros. Justice League/Justice League Unlimited Superman: TAS Batman: TAS Batman: the Brave and the Bold ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/6 "2010-12-14T15:14:16Z")
Yeah, I was going to say Venture Bros. Easy. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/7 "2010-12-14T15:14:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner. > > Why is this even a question? +1 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/8 "2010-12-14T15:15:14Z")
Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn. Archer Venture Bros. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/9 "2010-12-14T15:16:40Z")
A Chuck Jones retrospective, including his work for MGM. Same for Tex Avery. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/10 "2010-12-14T15:18:34Z")
Pretty much all of them. I love cartoons. It would take something really crappy. (A Clutch Cargo marathon?) to make me say no. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/11 "2010-12-14T15:22:19Z")
Avatar:The Last Airbender ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/12 "2010-12-14T15:23:53Z")
Bugs and Daffy. I’m just wondering how long the theatrical releases would be played back to back. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/13 "2010-12-14T15:29:56Z")
Though 8 full hours of _Archer_ don’t exist yet, I’ll wait until they finish season two, then happily endure both seasons in one sitting! …Hmmm… season 1 had 10 episodes; assuming season 2 has 10 as well, and they’re 22 minutes each, that’s only 7 hours and 20 minutes. Can I get 40 minutes of bathroom breaks sprinkled in? If not, can we throw in a couple of _Venture Brothers_ eps to take up the slack? (Much as I love the WB gang, they’d get mighty repetitive after only a couple hours, I’d think. Not sure if I’d enjoy sitting through 8 hours.) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/14 "2010-12-14T15:37:58Z")
Beyond the obvious Warner Brothers (A Tex Avery retrospective? Hell yes!), some ideas come to mind. I watched all of Macross in one sitting once. I’d sure as heck watch all of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan. I might pay to see a good Mickey revue, you never see the classic Disney stuff anywhere anymore. A nice in-context retrospective? Newsreels and cartoons? Oh, I could spend all day with that. Fleischer? Sure, why not. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/15 "2010-12-14T15:41:03Z")
Rocky & Bullwinkle Johnny Quest ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/16 "2010-12-14T15:49:45Z")
I held a _Robotech_ marathon for a group one time when I was a teenager. 85 episodes at ~22 minutes apiece, Robotech II: The Sentinels, a bootleg copy of Robotech: The Movie, and an English dub of Macross: Do You Remember Love? Overall, it took about two days; it should have taken less, but we took breaks to get pizza and play imported Macross games on the TurboGrafx-16. I’d seriously love to attend a theatrical marathon, which would now be even longer with the addition of the Robotech: Shadow Chronicles film. (Robotec wasn’t my only marathon; in my 20s, I had impromptu marathons of various anime and animation series-- I was the only one in my circle of friends who had a laserdisc player and had box sets of various series, so whether I wanted to be or not, I ended up being the host for a lot of geek fests.) I’d be willing to (try to) sit through marathons of most of my favorite American theatrical shorts; Warner Bros., MGM, UA, etc. Not really into anime any more, and not sure I could stand to sit through marathons of Popeye, Walter Lantz, and so on. I’d be more interested in seeing marathons of indie stuff; show all of the Spike & Mike festivals back to back, or all of the entries in the Animation Celebration fests, etc. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/17 "2010-12-14T15:54:43Z")
Sometime in the late 90s, some station (Cartoon Network?) had a top 100 or whatever cartoon marathon. It went on all day, IIRC. Looney Tunes, Disney, Tom and Jerry, even Bambi Meets Godzilla. Some of it was very politically incorrect and hadn’t seen the light of day in many decades. I’d gladly sit through 8 hours of that. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-marathon-would-you-sit-through-in-a-movie-theatre/564115/18 "2010-12-14T15:58:00Z")
I’ve probably sat through eight straight hours of The Simpsons at some point in my life already but if you gave me breaks for sleeping and going to the toilet, and I had no commitments, and you brought me food, I think I could, in theory, watch the entire 20-year run of the show for as many days as it would take. Now who wants to sponsor me in my quest to test out this theory? ---
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To add a +1 to some of the above: Chuck Jones/Tex Avery in general Bugs Bunny /Road Runner Rocky and Bullwinkle/ Fractured Fairy Tales et al Pixar shorts ---
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